This week Roz Morris is hosting me at her The Undercover Soundtrack blog: I’m talking about how music influence my writing.
Roz is a long-time professional writer, editor, online persona, who have ghost-written several bestseller novels as well as written books under her own name.… Read the rest
Stoker is a Hollywood debut of the renowned Korean director of Oldboy Chan-wook Park influenced by a Hitchock’s Shadow of a Doubt.
It’s a noir, a psychological thriller, yet a quiet meditative one, with its Oriental aesthetics and rich metaphors, a welcome tide of freshness in the stale marshes of this genre.… Read the rest
To me, books are not worth reading just for entertainment purposes. I want to learn something about the world and about myself, I want to be provoked into thinking about important issues.
Reading is a way to reflect, a mean for personal growth. … Read the rest
a book cover for “Mr Right and Mr Wrong” by Roopa Sachidanand
November turned out to be a busy month for me: I had a lot of experiments at work, had to prepare a mini-course on immunology for Imperial College students.… Read the rest
Blooming Cylindropuntia, Tenerife, Canary islands
I have a primal (if not primitive) quality I share with some curious animals. Did you ever see squirrels hiding nuts and magpies stealing sparkling things like watches or rings? I believe it may be a quirky instinct of collecting, stocking things up, though this is not a scientist’s guess.… Read the rest
Badger, photo by Killianwoods (Template:University Observer) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
If you live outside the United Kingdom you many not know this , but the question above has been tearing the nation apart for the last several months if not years.… Read the rest
The NaNoWriMo Kick Off Party, London, 25th October 2012
National November Writing Month is about to start. Are you participating this year? Not decided yet? It’s still not too late to register and start writing and complete your 50,000 words novel in one month.… Read the rest